Improvement in pantaloon-formers



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Pantaloon-Formers.

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ELLEN B. VIETS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PANTALOON-FORMERS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 156,900, dated Novemler17, 1574 application tiled November 5, 1874. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLEN B. Virus, of Boston, of the county of Sufi'olkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Apparatus for Shaping Pantaloons; and do hereby declare the same tobe fully described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 an endview, Fig. 3 a horizontal section, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, ofone of my improved pantaloon or trowsers shap ers or formers.

I usually construct such former in four main sections or parts, 9 h ik,formed as shown, and connected by a series of dowels, pins, or tenons,1, extending from each section into the two next adjacent to it, thesame being so that the sections, while in connection, may be moved intodifl'erent distances apart. A third or crotch section, m, interposedbetween the pairs g h andvlk of sections in manner as shown, has onopposite sides of it, and in the said pairs of sections, two recesses, aa, to receive wedges for forcing the two pairs of sections aparthorizontally. The two sections of each of the said pairs are groovedlengthwise to receive wed ges 0 0 for pressing such sections apart.Furthermore, the foot portion p of each of the upper leg-sections gr; Iusually make separable from the rest of the section, the two portionsbeing connected by'tenons or dowels. This is to allow another footportion differing a little in form or size to be substituted, asoccasion may require, and, besides, it facilitates the application ofthe former to a pair of trowsers.

The said pantaloons-former is designed more especially to be used in astationary box or chamber, in which case the former, prior to v suchuse, is to be introduced into a pair of trowsers, the wedges afterwardbeing driven up so as to cause the former to fit closely to the garmentor stretch the same to the desired extent. The former and the garmentthus stretched upon it are next to be placed within the stationaryapparatus.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The trowsers-former F, composed ofthe four main sections g h :1 7a, with or without the crotch-piece m,connected and provided with wedges, as described, whether each of thesections g h be in one entire piece or constructed with the foot portionseparable from the rest of the section, as set forth.

2. In a pantaloonshaper, the foot portion 19, separable from the legsection or part 9 or i, and applied theretoby means substantially asspecified.

ELLEN B. VlETS.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, J. R. SNoW.

